Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Be too late being freed
Her Maj forced to read list of undeliverable pledges Boris Brexit deadline at risk with a delay likely
2016, resulted in his being moved to an open prison. He was photographed enjoying unescorted release.
His new parole hearing is set for November 7. It is feared that unrepentant Simms, who is now in his 60s and has always professed his innocence, could be freed.
Marie has spent the past few weeks finalising a Victim Personal Statement which will be presented to the board.
The mum, accompanied by husband THE Queen was forced to reel off a list of Boris Johnson’s empty election promises as she reopened Parliament yesterday.
The Queen’s Speech led to furious claims the 93-year-old monarch was being exploited for political purposes as the Tories gear up for an expected election.
At yesterday’s State Opening, the Prime Minister vowed to make Britain “the greatest place on Earth” with “an ambitious programme to unite our country with energy and optimism”.
In a written introduction to the Queen’s Speech, Boris Johnson promised “one of the greatest eras of infrastructure investment in everything from rail to roads to gigabit broadband” as he aimed to “get the gears on our national gearbox working again” after Brexit.
But TUC chief Frances O’grady said: “This Queen’s Speech was a political stunt, not a serious set of commitments.
“If Boris Johnson really wanted to rebuild Britain, he wouldn’t be
THIS was Boris Johnson’s Tory manifesto launch wrapped up in a Queen’s Speech. The monarch could be forgiven for privately seething as she regurgitated the script from a rogue PM.
He is once again dragging her into politics, after lying in the summer to trick her into signing off on Parliament’s prorogation. John Sandwell, 72, and son Michael, 51, said: “It was heartbreaking to write.
“Without a grave to tend, the pain is as raw and fresh as it was then. We have never been able to move forward.”
Marie’s local Labour MP Conor Mcginn said: “I am so proud to call Marie a friend, and absolutely delighted her dignity, tenacity and just cause has been recognised by the Government.”
Helen’s Law will bring hope to families of the “missing murdered”. threatening working families with the hardest possible Brexit.
“Working people shouldn’t trust this Prime Minister.”
Naomi Smith, of the antibrexit Best for Britain campaign, said: “Today’s Queen’s speech was quite simply a Conservative Party election broadcast. Despite these grand spending promises, the Prime Minister must know his party’s obsession with leaving the EU will prevent any of them coming to fruition.”
Opposition parties blasted the PM’S decision to trigger a
Queen’s Speech, setting out Conservative plans that he has virtually no chance of getting through the Commons.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “There has never been such a farce as a Government with a majority of minus 45 and a 100% record of defeat in the Commons setting out a legislative agenda they know cannot be delivered in this Parliament.”
SNP Westminster leader Ian He’s squandered our money and the Queen’s time on this farce.
Not a single bill has a chance of becoming law since the PM is 40-plus votes short of a majority.
Johnson’s grip is loosening. In the speech, he stressed that “my Home Office figures obtained by the Mirror show in the past 10 years alone at least 50 killers have been convicted without their victim’s body found.
Missing victims include April Jones, five, who was murdered in Machynlleth, Powys, by Mark Bridger in 2012. Bone fragments were recovered but her body has never been found.
Danielle Jones, 15, of East Tilbury, Essex, was killed in 2001 by her uncle Stuart Campbell. He will be up for parole in the next two years.
Jonathan Dolton, 20, disappeared from his Milton Keynes home in 2002. Colleague Stuart Martin, 40, was convicted of manslaughter but refused to reveal the location of his remains.
Carole Packman, 40, disappeared in Bournemouth in 1985. Husband Russell Causley was convicted of murder but daughter Sam has had no closure.
Yesterday Marie added: “Finding Helen is the first thing I think of when I wake and the last thing at night.
“Surely hiding a body and putting families through torture for as long as the killer wishes to cannot be allowed?” Blackford said: “The Queen’s Speech was an election broadcast for the Tory Party more than anything else.” Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, pictured below, called it “a charade”.
Plans to boost animal welfare, create an Office for Veterans’ Affairs and to push through what Mr Johnson dubbed a “momentous new Environment Bill” were among 22 Bills unveiled. Pledges included a shake-up of social care, tougher terms for the most serious criminals and confirmation of a Mirror victory in outlawing imports from trophy hunting. Eduardo Goncalves of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting said: “The Daily Mirror’s support has been absolutely key to this victory.”
Instead of the Imperial State Crown, the Queen wore the lighter George IV diadem.
She was helped up and down the steps by Prince Charles.
Government’s priority” is to leave Europe on October 31, not that we “will” leave then, which he has been insisting for weeks.
Odds are Johnson will miss the date and delay Brexit. Support for a referendum on any deal will grow, while Tory zealots, Nigel Farage and the DUP will accuse him of abandoning the cause. BORIS Johnson is under pressure to break his “do or die” pledge to deliver Brexit on October 31 as we struggle to strike a deal with the EU.
Negotiations will go down to the wire tomorrow with the border issue remaining a sticking point.
But the Prime Minister was warned another delay may be needed to finally get a deal through. Finnish leader Antti Rine, who holds the EU’S rotating presidency, said talks could continue after the crunch summit of EU leaders later this week.
He said: “There is no time in a practical or legal way to find an agreement before the EU Council meeting.”
Tanaiste Simon Coveney added: “A deal is possible and it’s possible this month, maybe even this week. But we’re not there yet. There’s still a lot of work to do.”
It raises the possibility of an emergency EU summit at the end of the month to approve any 11th-hour deal.
At the State Opening of Parliament, the Queen’s Speech stopped short of repeating the PM’S vow to leave the EU on Halloween.
Mr Johnson faces a major Commons showdown after the summit in an emergency Saturday sitting, the first since the Falklands War.
If he fails to get a deal, he is expected to ask MPS to vote on a no-deal Brexit.
Opposition MPS could also table a vote on a second referendum. There are also concerns any deal would not get through Parliament – and if it did, there would not be time to get laws through.
But No 10 ruled out a delay even if a deal looked to be in sight. A spokesman said: “The PM is clear – we leave on October 31.”
Meanwhile, a Brexit Budget will be held on November 6 – six days after we are due to leave the bloc.
Chancellor Sajid Javid said: “This is the right and responsible thing to do.”
But Shadow Chancellor John Mcdonnell dismissed it as “an electioneering stunt”.